2 Words to use with cavillings

Come, thou art a cavilling companion: Because thou seest my heart is drown'd in love, Thou wilt drowne me too.

He then enters into the defence of the Dr's. poem, and observes, 'that the phrase of passions being poized, and retrieving merit from dependence, cavilled at by the critics, are beautiful and poetical; it is the same cavilling spirit, says he, that finds fault with that expression of the Pomp of Peace, among Woes of War, as well as of Offering unasked.'

2 Words to use with  cavillings